Honesty, Understanding Required

August 22, 2013|Letter to the editor

Three somewhat hysterical letters have appeared in The Courant in response to an informative letter from John Cagnetta which was aimed solely at pointing out the lack of correlation between computer-generated predictions of increased global temperature and the actual data showing lack of temperature rise since 2008.The points to be made were that computer-generated models need further refining and the effect of carbon dioxide on global temperatures appears limited.

Cagnetta's letter was not about any particular temperature/year, but simply about the important real-life trend. Responders missed that point, crying "anti-global warming" or "misleading." Cagnetta did not claim that there will not be further global warming.

Citing 2007 IPPC summary report as gospel reveals that writers have not accepted the more recent IPPC (TAR3). If they had, Cagnetta's statement regarding the diminished effect of carbon dioxide would have been accepted.

The "warmists" should have presented their cases with more honesty and depth of understanding.